TRUMP: DID NOT APPROVE $200M AD FEATURING HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY NOEM, SAYS HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT

Target makes it into Josh Brown's Best Stocks list as the retailer's charts show signs of life Josh Brown and Sean Russo break down what's going on with Target.

Target makes it into Josh Brown's Best Stocks list as the retailer's charts show signs of life

MOULTON: How many pages is your opening statement? It's 1,700 words. You devoted one sentence to the war in Iran and not one word to the six soldiers who have been killed in action. Do you think that's appropriate?

COLBY: I have only the deepest respect for those soldiers and their families

Exclusive: Trump says he must be involved in picking Iran's next leader "Khamenei's son is unacceptable to me. We want someone that will bring harmony and peace to Iran."

Trump says he must be involved in picking Iran's next leader

#OOTT

Slovakia formally terminates emergency electricity contract with Ukraine — Kyiv had already been refused when it asked Slovakia's state grid operator confirmed Ukraine last received emergency power in January and was turned away when it requested more.

Pro-Russian Slovakia formally terminated its emergency electricity contract with Ukraine — after already refusing Kyiv's requests for help following the ban.

PM Fico pushed the cancellation through cabinet on 4 March, cutting the last legal safety net for Ukraine's battered energy grid.

Iraq plunged into nationwide blackout as US tells citizens to leave immediately - Türkiye Today Iraq's entire national power grid has collapsed in a total blackout as the country reels from the widening US-Israeli military campaign against Iran

Iraq plunged into nationwide blackout as US tells citizens to leave immediately
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To the crews of those tankers: good luck with the sea mines and drones, but don’t worry. If you’re attacked, your boss is insured.

Wow: It appears Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) will not run for reelection.

This comes just days after Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) also announced he will not seek reelection.

The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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WASHINGTON (AP) — White House says Spain has agreed to cooperate with US operations in Mideast after Trump threatened financial penalties.

MADRID (AP) — Spain's government denies cooperation with US operations in the Middle East, contradicting White House.

Finland's smartphone ban gave middle-schoolers a new way of life, principals say "Students look each other in the eye and say hello. This makes me happy," a principal in Lahti said.

"They said students are more sociable, bullying has significantly decreased, and the change can even be seen in school hallways."

A lesson for adults, too?

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The natural gas spike is bad, but it has a long way to go before it matches 2022.

Statement from Jasmine Crockett.

QATAR TO FULLY SHUT GAS LIQUEFACTION ON WEDNESDAY, TWO SOURCES CLOSE TO MATTER SAY QATAR WOULD NEED 2 WEEKS TO RESTART GAS LIQUEFACTION AFTER FULL SHUTDOWN, SOURCES SAY, CITING INITIAL ESTIMATES ONCE RESTARTED, QATAR WOULD NEED AT LEAST ANOTHER 2 WEEKS TO REACH FULL CAPACITY,

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.

A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

The US offer to provide protection and insurance for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz is a necessary step, but is it sufficient?
While it helps with the ABILITY to navigate the Strait, there remains the question of ship owners'/operators' WILLINGNESS to do so.
#economy

While transiting the Strait of Hormuz

"A container ship has reported being hit by an unknown projectile just above the water line causing a fire in the engine room."

"The crew have now abandoned the vessel."

We're living in the timeline when hundreds of millions of years of dead matter was compressed by vast amount of rocks which were pushed by tectonic plates to create this concentration of oil and gas in less than 5% of the global land mass which humans now may burn away in less than 500 years.

I've seen enough: Rep. Tony Gonzales (R) and Brandon Herrera (R) advance to a GOP runoff in #TX23.

Exclusive: Defense executives plan to meet at White House as strikes on Iran diminish stockpiles Companies including Lockheed Martin and Raytheon parent RTX have been invited.

Three days into a war of choice with no public support, the billions are adding up quickly: "Pentagon may seek around $50 billion supplemental budget for Middle East operations." $50 billion!
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Reagan appointed judge: "If nobody’s going to enforce the Constitution, it becomes like the Constitution of Russia."

Genuine conservatives within the judiciary stand as one of the final bulwarks against authoritarian rule in America.

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A massive Democratic overperformance in Arkansa

🚨BREAKING🚨

Democrat Alex Holladay has defeated Republican Bryan Renshaw in the Arkansas State House District 70 Special Election.

This is a flip from 🔴 to 🔵.

Dave Wasserman @Redistrict I've seen enough: Steve Toth (R) defeats Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R) in the #TX02 GOP primary.

BIG upset in Texas 2nd Congressional Primary as Republican Dan Crenshaw loses his primary to Steve Toth, per @redistrict.bsky.social

Kyler Murray thanks Arizona, embraces 'whatever's next' Field Level Media

Kyler Murray thanks Arizona, embraces 'whatever's next' reut.rs/4rRvKbs

CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say | CNN Politics The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran and the Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish lea...

The next Forever War is here.

"The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran, multiple people familiar with the plan told CNN."

RAJU: You'll concede this is war?

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: We haven't declared war. They declared war on us

RAJU: The president called it war and Secretary Hegseth called it war

REPORTER: When you walked up just now, you called it war

MULLIN: Okay. That was a misspoke.

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

Just now: Texas Democratic Party says “hundreds of Dallas County voters are being turned away from the polls” because of new Republican-led requirements that they vote only in their precinct, rather than anywhere in the county #txlege

Rubio Today: It’s false to say I said the U.S. had to attack because Israel was going to attack. That’s not what I said.

Rubio Yesterday: We knew Israel was going to strike Iran, and that would trigger attacks on U.S. forces. If we didn’t act first, Americans would suffer higher casualties.